Saturday, November 07, 2009

Watercolor in the Renaissance.

Hugo van der Goes was a Flemish painter. He was, along with Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling and Gerard David, one of the most important of the Early South-Netherlandish painters.

"Lexis art lover"* defines Tüchlein as: A painting painted with an aqueousmedium, (gum/glue) on a finely woven linen support, which is glue sized and unprimed and left unvarnished after the painting was finished. Very little "Tüchlein" came to us because of their fragility.

The term ‘Tüchlein’ derives from a quotation in Albrecht Dürer’s diary (Dubois 1997). He madethis entry during his travels to the Low Countries in 1520-1521 “[…] I have sold a ‘Madonna’ picture painted on small canvas”/ “I have got 4 florins, 5 stivers for three small canvases ”/ “I have given the little Portuguese factor, Signor Francisco, my small canvas with thesmall child […]”1(Fry 1913).